Addington Opens Next Tuesday

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 501, 2 November 1928, Page 11

Addington Opens Next Tuesday

NOTES ON COMPETITORS 'POINTS FOR PUNTERS Keen Interest is being taken in the forthcoming trotting carnival which opens at Addington on Tuesday, continues on Thursday, and concludes on Friday. During that period the best of the Dominion’s pacers and trotters will be seen in action, including some of Auckland’s very best in the hoppled section. Bay Nut has raced recently with such consistency that his chances of picking up a stake at Addington must he held in high respect. His second in the Methven Cup was a good effort, and he later in the day landed the 10-furlong flutter. * * * Mate o’ Mine seems to be somewhat unlucky in bis races, but he seldom fails to get some portion of the stake, and he may make amends during the Christchurch carnival next week. He went fast at Addington in August for second money behind Kingscraft. Laplander will do the Northerners who saw him race last month, and there is no doubt about his staying ability, as in both races here Holmes’** Pacer came at the right end. He will 8o a solid two miles. * * * Orphan will not be aptly-named w hen the machine figures are counted U P on Tuesday, and Warren’s horse should be the favourite in the Victoria Handicap. If on no other score than his second on Labour Day to Pointer, t he public will be friends Orphan. * * * Among the Trotters If Drum Withers has Dolores dressed tn her best gown she will sing _a Pleasing melody for her backers in Jb© Spring Trot. She went well at Epsom on the final day of the Christbtsjj meeting, and had Raima extended at the finish. * * * Nelson Boy is a consistent customer over 12 furlongs, and should be at home to all-comers in the square--sJfted heat over this distance on ‘’hesday. He failed last time out at dutt Park, but that wasn’t his true torm.

Backers will get the right medicine U Addington if Tonic is in his best wealth, and latest reports from the state Tomkinson’s Victorian 2° tte r is hitting out in fine style. 5® should be improved as the carni- *** Progresses.

Young Carbine came to light at the last Wellington fixture after past failures, and it may be the El Carbine trotting gelding intends to go solid in the future. If he does he should not be long in picking up another stake. * * *

Engagement was in fine form last season at Forbury Park, and won a double in a fashion that suggested she would not be long in getting among the top-notch trotters. She is now in the real class, and will certainly not disgrace herself. Not much has been heard of Native Star since shjfe went into Mr. B. Edwards’s stalls, but it can be taken for granted the Palmerston North mare will be in the pink for her Addington engagements. She is a great trotter and capable of beating anything in her class in the land. * * * Young Blake proved himself to be all that his admirers claimed when lie recorded a shade worse than 1.28 at Alexandra Park last month, to get small end of the purse. Being on 4.30 at Addington will make his many friends wish to be with him. * * * Sister Beatrice showed in August that she likes the dirt track in Christchurch when it is firm, and when she ran second to Kerapton, conceding him 72yds, the Hawera square-gaiter put up a performance that was full of merit, and her time was well within the 4.31 mark she is now placed on. * * * Saddle Merchants If Rebel’s time, 2.15, for the mile saddle at Wellington in September in the holding going was genuine then the opposition will have a difficult task to head him off in the saddle heat on Tuesday. Ben Jarden may again be his pilot. m m

Trimmer can scamper over a mile with the weight on top, and provided she leaves the peg at the signal he should prove capable of trimming the opposition in the St. Albans Handicap, in which he is in the very front low.

Amaris has not had a race for some considerable time, but in a short burst the other morning on the sand track he showed a fine turn of speed. b. August has gone South to ride the gelding, and it may prove a good combination. *

The aged gelding August Dillon Sowned a big favourite in Jewel Pointer in the mile saddle heat the first Tay of last November carnival, and the son of Hula Dillon is a competitor for the honour again on Tuesday. When right he is a speedy customer, and may again create a surprise. Author Jinks, the briUiant son of Author Dillon, should be a much imAllinoi Y ’ aftel - hi s well-earned hofiday and it looks as if the Southern horse should get mone> before the terminates. Epigram quickly got into the limelight last season, and the r ° COU rse, smart customer o'er a